Singing sensation Charlotte Church, is being comforted by her mother after breaking up with her boyfriend.

Reports said Church had kicked Steven Johnson out of their Cardiff flat and gone to stay with her mother, Maria.

Charlotte's mother said: "Charlotte is very upset and it hurts me that he has hurt her like this. But she loved him so much."

Johnson had caused a rift between Church and her mother, who did not think the 19-year-old DJ was a suitable boyfriend.

Since releasing her debut album, Voice Of An Angel, aged 12, Church has amassed an estimated #16m fortune. But earlier this month, Church told the Oxford Student magazine that she planned to retire and start a family, although she did not mention Johnson.